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Soon after Captain John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry and was arrested, fellow abolitionist and writer Lydia Maria Child wrote a letter to him while he was in jail. The two had never met, but Lydia wanted to assure Brown that she was one of many who supported him in his cause. In this brief letter she made it very clear that even though she supported Brown in his desire to personally free slaves she...